National Geographic’s “Sugarcane,” a film about abuse and missing children at an Indigenous boarding school in Canada, leads this year’s nominations for the Cinema Eye Honors awards with six. Cinema Eye recognizes excellence in the artistry and craft of nonfiction filmmaking.

Cinema Eye Honors, an organization that celebrates the artistic achievements of nonfiction and documentary filmmakers, has unveiled the feature film nominees for its 18th annual award ceremony, which takes place Jan.

Sugarcane’ leads the nominations for the Cinema Eye Honors awards with six. Four films are next with five each: ‘Dahomey,’ ‘Eno,’ ‘Frida’ and ‘No Other Land.'

"Dahomey," "No Other Land" also receive multiple nominations from New York-based doc organization The post ‘Sugarcane’ Leads All Documentaries in Nominations for Cinema Eye Honors appeared first on TheWrap.

The documentary about abuse in an Indian residential school received six nominations, including Nonfiction Feature and Direction.

Sugarcane, the Nat Geo documentary feature about abuse and forced separations in a Canadian Indigenous community, landed a field-leading six nominations for the Cinema Eye Honors, the organization, which celebrates nonfiction work made for big and small screens,